Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 Last update: 11:06 p.m.
Decreased funding for research and development squeezes Maine universities
University spending on research and development rose by less than half a percent nationally in fiscal year 2013, according to data released earlier this month …
Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Races underway in Fort Kent
22 mins agoNew Hampshire musher Peter Franke was the first Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Race finisher this weekend, crossing the finish line late …
AG Mills orders wind power opposition group to replace leaders or disband
PORTLAND | The statewide wind power opposition group Friends of Maine Mountains will have to shut down if it can’t restructure its five-member board …
Skowhegan man’s fiery death ruled suicide, police say
2 hours agoFAIRFIELD | A 61-year-old Skowhegan man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on …
REGION:
Windham man allegedly sold cyanide to British man for $250 per gram
A Windham man faces life in prison if convicted of selling potassium …
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Irving leads Lawrence past Thornton Academy for first Class A girls basketball state title since 1994
Bangor High School wins Maine Science Bowl
3 hours agoGORHAM — Future scientists went head-to-head Saturday at the 15th Annual Maine science bowl and …
Firefighters at scene of blaze on Canaan Road in Clinton
Firefighters from four towns responded at 3:43 p.m. Saturday to a fire …
ROOTED IN ME (blog)
A native Californian learns about Maine winter the hard way
Over the last two years I’ve learned I’m “from away.” I was born in the …
Opinion
EDITORIALS
Want to cut jail spending? Stop putting so many low-risk people in jail
Although Maine’s crime rate has dropped, the number of people held in county jails has doubled in the last two decades. Maine, like other states, …
Sports
Hampden surges to second Class A boys basketball state championship in three years
AUGUSTA | A fast start and a dominant finish sparked Hampden Academy to its second Class A boys basketball state championship in three years …
Health
CATCHING HEALTH (blog)
A Hard-Learned Lesson about Shingles
It was the beginning of a Labor Day weekend when Al felt a strange sensation on his right buttock, just underneath his back pocket where …
Business
AG Mills orders wind power opposition group to replace leaders or disband
PORTLAND | The statewide wind power opposition group Friends of Maine Mountains will have to shut down if it can’t restructure its five-member board …
Outdoors
VIDEO
GoPro captures musher’s perspective during sled dog run in Fort Kent
The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
Food
MAINE COURSE (blog)
Find a Piece of Maine at b.good in Boston
Slipping and sliding, my kids and I walked in the bitter cold last Thursday from our Boston hotel to b.good, a burger joint with a …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
